Where is the operating sys drive on the Z640

[Starlite]

Just bought a Z640 with a 580 ssd with Win 10 Pro and want to swap it for a 1TB ssd.

I have removed the 2 bay trays and the dvd tray but still cannot see where the ssd with the os on it.

Where on earth is it?

I've really looked and cannot see any drive at all. Either I'm going crazy or it is very well hidden But where ?

Thanks

[erico]

If there is no SSD in an adapter in one of the bay, the boot drive is on the only hard drive that is present.

Did you buy is used and marketed as having an SSD present or did you check in the device manager for the model number of the hard disk?

[Starlite]

Well, live and learn. and today I did.  Never knew about the SSD NVME pce cards but now I do.

No wonder I couldn't find the disk as there is none. It is a small card like a RAM which is attached to a a PCIe card in slot 4.

Trouble now is it is only 500GB and as I am transferring all my data, programs etc over, I need a 1TB for the space.

I am doing it using Laplink  to the new Win 10 Pro and it has saved 497GB data, ready to restore on the new box but  although there are no programs on it yet, there is only 297GB left of the 500GB.

I will have to go buy a 1TB although the fast ones are quite exy.

Another query I have is what do I need to use a standard 2.5 ssd in the 3.5 removable trays.  Is this it..

Link to Ebay for tray converter 

What about the other 2 empty bays .  although I see they are split inti two sections and not big enough for any drive.

How do I convert these to hold HDD disks ?

Thank you for your help and advice.

[Starlite · Accepted solution]

I bought the 1TB NVme and swapped it with the 500GB on the PCIe card.

I am now installing Win 10 Pro on it.

[erico]

That is actually an NVMe M.2 SSD on a PCIe adapter card.

I will edit this and post back the part number for a 2.5" SSD adapter for the drive tray shortly.

The part number is  654540-001 

Here is a link to the 2.5" drive adapters on eBay

https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=654540-001&_sacat=0&LH...

[Starlite]

Many thanks. That's what I want for my 2.5 ssd.

What about the adaptors to fit a regular 3.5 HDD and ssds' into the empty trays above the slim DVD.

I see a couple of options in Ebay but not sure what one.

Is this it?

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[erico]

That does not look like it.

In the eBay.au link I posted there are adapters with the same HP part number. 

[Starlite]

I thought these were for the trays inside the box. I will get one of those for the ssd I have.

The other one was for the two bays above the DVD at the front of the box.  I would like a HDD and ssds in those too and thought that Ebay link may be the adapter.

It was on a PCIe card.. NVMe ssd